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The summer summit model: Maximizing community partnerships to cultivate policy practice field placements
Field Educator (2017)
  • Jill Manit, Sacred Heart University
  • M.E. Hylton
Abstract
While competence in policy practice is a necessary element of generalist social work (Council on Social Work Education, 2015), developing field placements in which students have the opportunity to engage in applied policy practice can be challenging. Nonprofit and public agencies, frequently the sites for student field practicums, are limited in the types of political activities in which they may engage (U.S. Office of Special Counsel, 2005). Furthermore, many of these agencies are not informed as to the nonpartisan policy practice activities in which they can be engaged. Additionally, social work education programs may find it difficult to find qualified field instructors at organizations that do engage in policy practice activities. Therefore, students completing social work practicums frequently miss out on opportunities to engage in policy practice as part of their applied social work education. 
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Publication Date
October, 2017
Citation Information
Manit, J. & Hylton, M.E. (2017). The summer summit model: Maximizing community partnerships to cultivate policy practice field placements. Field Educator, 7.2. Retrieved from http://fieldeducator.simmons.edu/article/the-summer-summit-model-maximizing-community-partnerships-to-cultivate-policy-practice-field-placements/